Is it enough to take on all the other offerings? Probably not, but at $35, it’s hard to pass up.
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96c: Google showers the world with updates
A new Nexus 7, Jelly Bean 4.3, and a games app plus much more!
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96b: The tail continues to wag the dog
Samsung announces a developer conference for their TouchWiz UI built on top of Android.
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96: Incremental American Improvements
Incremental (adjective): of, relating to, being, or occurring in especially small improvements.
That’s what we featured this week. Incremental improvements in earnings calls, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, Google products (Nexus 7, 4.3 Jelly Bean, Play Games App and even their Chromecast). We also talk about the potentially new Ubuntu Edge, and manufacturing in America.
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- Earnings Calls Take On Whiff of Showbiz
- Ubuntu Edge dual-boots Android
- Samsung to host their own dev conference in SF
- Google Calendar API Push notifications: don’t call us, we’ll call you
- Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230
- Google launches Android’s answer to Apple’s Game Center: The Google Play Games app
- Google Unveils the Chromecast, an HDMI Stick for Streaming Video
- Google’s Official Announcements
- Mounting Disappointment About Chromecast
- Made In America
- Samsung Dethrones Apple as Profit winner
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95: The Next Microsoft Plan
This week we talk about Elon Musk’s birthday present to Matthew, the big Telecom’s quick upgrade programs, the trouble with Microsoft, the future of the tablet and Apple’s future products.
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- Wearable Robot
- Elon Musk Is Going to Reveal the Hyperloop for my Birthday
- iWatch Could Have Batteries Embedded in the Flexible Wrist Wrap
- AT&T Unveils it’s “Next” Upgrade Plan
- Verizon Looks to Edge Out Competition With Six-Month Upgrade Program
- Verizon’s Edge Phone Upgrade Plan is the Same Bad Ripoff as AT&T Next
- That Settles it, I’m Waiting for the iWatch
- Microsoft Blames Weak PC Sales for Shortcomings
- Microsoft Hurt by Surface RT Sales
- Bill Gates Lost Like a Billion Dollars Today
- Nokia and Microsoft Are Doing Miserably
- Microsoft Was Wrong: Tablets Are Not PCs. So Now What?
- Two Versions of the iPhone Cheap
92c: Apple and Google ruin developer’s summer
Even more so than normal because of the sweeping changes.
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92: James And Matthew Discuss Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry And Overly Descriptive Titles
Good-bye Google Reader, you will be missed. But that doesn’t mean news stops happening. If anything, there’s more news than ever! In some ways, news never sleeps, and neither does Matthew on an airplane. Listen to this week’s episode with Matthew in the UK.
Microsoft tells us how awesome IE11 is, Tesla treats North Carolina lawmakers to a test drive, 10 influential leaders share their favorite books, Apple and Google ruin developer’s summer, BlackBerry effectively kills the Playbook and we get a BREIF introduction to plasmonics.
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- A breakthrough in plasmonics
- From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internet’s “Lurkers” Who Don’t Tweet Or Blog
- The Books That Inspired Tech’s Most Influential People
- Introducing IE11: The Best Way to Experience the Web on Modern Touch Devices
- iOS buying time for Apple or Stealing time from Android
- How Apple and Google ruined Summer Vacation for Developers
- Apple may have opened Pandora’s box
- iOS 7 will be hard target for copiers to hit
- Apple Spaceship May Not Happen In Cupertino
- Law to prevent sales of Tesla Cars fails on North Carolina
- Tesla has competition from the Fiat 500e
- Death Knell for BB Playbook
- BB stock plummets with flop of touch screens
- Flipboard adds support for Instagram videos
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91d: Bad idea turned good: Google’s playing with balloons that could change the Internet
I’m doubtful it’ll work, but it would be for technological reasons.
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91: Bad Ideas
This week, we explore 3 bad ideas. 1) Xbone’s DRM policies 2) Yahoo’s email release and 3) Facebook’s Vine clone.
We also talk about Feedly’s attempt to be the #1 Reader replacement, Teslas’s super chargers, LG’s flexible display, TapAd’s cookie work-around, and Google’s Project Loon.
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- The End of Cookies and the beginning of Fingerprints
- Microsoft reverses XBone DRM policies
- Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
- LG to mass-produce flexible displays
- Yahoo’s Very Bad Idea to Release Email Addresses
- Feedly Launches a Standalone Webapp, No Extension Necessary
- Facebook Adds Vine to Instagram
- Facebook Announces That It’s Out Of Ideas
- Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What’s The Difference?
- Is Mark Zuckerberg the new Bill Gates?
- Tesla Supercharge station will be able to do battery swaps
- Nissan announces electric car for Le Mans endurance race
- Project Loon’s biggest Obstacle is Politics
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90c: HP wants to be the back-end system to house and serve data for new hardware like tablets and wearables
It’s a great strategy that should pay off well for HP.
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